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"...You're either with us or you're against us...."

But getting back to Will's "slip of the tongue"--Don't you think it's amazing in and of itself? Am I reading too much into it? I don't think so.

This is a clear indication of how the bureaucratic/managerial Class is going to produce the next election pageant. It's going to be a fight over who best will conserve, defend and expand "FDR World"!!

The Republican Party which was, after all, never conservative in any fundamental sense of the word, managed to revive itself by exploiting the intellectual and emotional energy of homeless culture warriors, wild-hair libertarians, etc. Now that they're back in the game the burkha of "conservatism" can be lifted a bit for a clearer view.

AND it explains why there is no essential dissatisfaction with the concept of eternal warfare against "terrorism" wherever it may be holeing up. The war on terror is going to provide the public works projects for whichever latter-day FDR wins the next election. Naturally they can't dig around in the Homeland anymore because of "enlightened" environmental concerns. War and nation-building will be the means by which the "needy" are provided jobs.

In the 30s they built dams. In the 10s we will build Camp Bondsteels all over the world. Complete with "education centers"--"How to live in the modern world"..."Capitalism in one Easy Lesson"..."Success on Two Dollars a Day"...

Slip of the tongue. Life is a government program.

I don't know. I've never been terribly impressed with Will (aka, Alfalfa with a Thesaurus). He's not a clear thinker, and unclear thinkers tend to utter unclear thoughts. Was it a slip of the tongue for which his Corporatist (I try never to use "capitalism" to describe our current economic program) masters will punish him? Or is he just another Sunday morning goon trying to hump his next book? Who knows.

I'm not quite as conpiratorially minded as you are, BelleDame. I don't think anyone (or anyone serious at least) has developed a 5 Year Plan around building Camp Rhinos in various desertified countries. If anything, his remark betrays the common mindset, the "breathing together" con-spiracy that, I believe, Askel5 has referred to. There is nothing under the sun that ISN'T a government program to these people.